I had nothing much to do yesterday so I actually started looking at the facebook apps that I had installed. One of the apps on facebook is My Personality, which basically gives you one of those personality tests (this one is the Big Five test) and then ranks you on five axes. The app rated me on what would be the equivalent of "individualistic lazy daydreaming introvert" which is a pretty accurate description of who I am.
Another feature of this app is that you can get your friends to rate you. And can you believe it, they all rated the opposite.
The two offenders are Conscientiousness and Extraversion. While my Extraversion rating was 23% (highly introverted), the friend rating was 67% (extroverted). Something wrong there? The test rating for Conscientiousness even more mismatched. My rating was 15% (i.e lazy procrastinator) while the friend rating was 96% (always gets stuff done)!!
Obviously I've managed to fool a lot of people.
1 comment:
That is quite interesting. Even allowing for differences in perception (of what you think of yourself vs what others think of you), I would expect some overlap.
Introverted persons do not really write blogs, do they? Or organize open coffee houses or try to sell products :)!
You may want to retake the test :)
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